MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - 8/07/2026

WEDNESDAY - 8TH JULY, 2026

MORNING WINGS DAILY DEVOTIONAL - Olusola & Oreoluwa ADEJUMO

WHEN KNOWING BECOMES SIN

II Samuel 7:1-2, KJV

"1 And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;  

2 That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains."

There's a time when knowing and transgressing what has been told you becomes a sin. I once heard a testimony from a live programme as shared by the anointed and revered of the Lord, a father to many, Reverend Olusola Areogun of Life Oasis International Church, Osogbo, Osun State, Nigeria. 

He narrated the experience of a minister friend with the Holy Ghost. This minister had just finished ministering in Kaduna, a state in the Northern part of Nigeria. That ended around evening and so the brethren persuaded him to stay to sleep over because travelling in the night could be dangerous. He agreed and heeded their counsel and concern. 

After a while of rest in his guest speaker's lodge, the Lord came to the man of God around 10 P.M. asking him a question. "When is it difficult for me to protect you: the day or the night?" In essence, God was saying, "Am I only the God of the hills? Am I not of the valley also?" (I Kings 20:23, 28).

When the man of God heard this, he knew it would be sin delaying or tarrying any longer. His plan was to sleep overnight but now that He has been confronted by the Lord though it is now night time, he got on the road to travel when it was very late and wouldn't have been wise to travel at all. Guess what...he had a safe travel. 

That made me say, there's a time when knowing and not acting on that knowledge becomes sin. God gave me a picture of this through the life of David. David got to a juncture where he had a personal understanding of what was needful to do without anybody sermonizing him. Of himself, he speaks to Prophet Nathan and says, "...lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant of the LORD remaineth under curtains."

May you have a congregation like this. May you have a household like this. That's what it means to be self taught and self intuitive. Such people don't wait for a push before they do what is right. I think every minister ought to labour in prayer that he'll have such a people that nothing is too big to lay down before the Lord. David isn't someone that God gives rest to who allows the comfort he has to engulf him and make him forget God. He was being jealous for God. 

That reveals the posture of his heart as someone who caters and cumbers himself for the Lord. May you as a minister receive an allocation of people who'll be self taught in seeing to your needs also. 

Nobody gave David this notice. It was his discovery and personal conviction. Though God saluted him but withheld the assignment from him, reserving it for Solomon yet we can't deny his good heart. A lesson that knowing doesn't equal doing except the Lord also permits. Your willingness doesn't equal God's approval always and that doesn't mean the Lord is angry with you. 

Indeed, that's when knowing and not following it with a corresponding action becomes sin. God will convict you and place things on your heart to do. When you decipher them but delay or disobey, that's when you transgress and will pay with consequences. I pray for you that you will hear and will fear reverently. It is not good to hear and not move. If you do, your heart can stop beating. It could be that consequential. 

May God not waylay you. May you not become a Balaam that the Lord double crosses out of persistent disobedience. I pray for you, hear and move; discover and act. May nothing hold you back. May you not endanger yourself, family or those around you. May you know that obedience is truly better than sacrifice. Where knowing meets God's approval, may you not delay. One time while I was still on campus, God convinced me to give the newer of the two towels my grandmother had given me to a revered brother. I knew it was the Lord but hesitated because I wanted the newer one for myself. However, the Lord insisted on that one because that's the exact towel that brother had been using before but which had now become ragged. So, God wanted it replaced with another exactly for reasons He knew best. Guess what, I didn't have rest until I had released that particular one. Amidst the bantering in my mind, God never left me alone until I did that. What do you know is from the Lord that you haven't acted on? God is merciful. He'll keep patronizing you for awhile before He leaves you to yourself. Never get to that place of defiance!

PRAYER: Lord, help my heart to obey promptly, fully and correctly. May I move when you move and withhold at your demand. Pray for self taught people concerning your life and calling.

BIBLE IN ONE YEAR

I Chronicles 5:18-6:81, Acts 26:1-32, Psalm 6:1-10, Proverbs 18:20-21

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